McGee House

Built in 1917. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The McGee House in Aztec, New Mexico, at 501 Sabena St., was built in 1917. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.”
Wikipedia article McGee House (Aztec, New Mexico), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 21 National Register listings published here for San Juan County · listed in 1985 · category: Building · built in 1917.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 501 Sabena St., Aztec, 87410
When was it listed? February 1985
Category. building
Also known as. Aztec New Mexico Historic MRA
Census division. Aztec
When was it built? 1917
National Register reference number. 85000335 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

70 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of McGee House between 1994 and 2020, burning about 106 acres in total. 31 started naturally. 2 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Natural	31
Debris and open burning	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Arson/incendiarism	2
Smoking	1
Recreation and ceremony	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
18 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Jicarilla Agency	HURRY UP
5 August 2001	Natural	under an acre	Farmington Field Office	FARMER
4 August 2016	Natural	under an acre	Farmington Field Office	2575
3 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Farmington Field Office	POTTER
23 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Farmington Field Office	DRY WALL
22 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Farmington Field Office	MAILBOX
22 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Farmington Field Office	HAMPTON2
10 August 2004	Natural	under an acre	Farmington Field Office	CAMPBELL

Every fire recorded in San Juan County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of McGee House: 4 unknowns, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gypsum-Anhydrite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Aztec Gypsum Prospect	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Unknown
Airport Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Spencerville Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in San Juan County

Storms near this property

5 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Aztec, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2017: 2 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2015	Flash Flood	Aztec	$1,000,000	The Blanco Arroyo overflowed its banks and, combined with heavy rain across the area, led to significant flash flooding. Firefighters rescued a few individuals from the roofs of their homes, otherwise no major injuries or fatalities were reported. Several homes were reportedly shifted off their foundation and a propane tank at one of those homes was swept away in the flood waters. Multiple classrooms were damaged at three area schools, causing all schools to be closed on the 27th and one school, Lydia Rippey Elementary, to be closed on the 28th. The Aztec Municipal Golf Course at Hidden Valley was closed until further notice due to damages incurred from the flooding. A large rock slide closed Navajo Road 36 at mile marker 28, with other smaller road closures reported around Aztec. Measured rainfall in the area ranges from an inch to a little over an inch and a half.
August 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Aztec	$150,000	Damaging winds caused multiple trees to fall over, landing on houses and power lines. This caused power outages for portions of Aztec, Flora Vista, and Crouch Mesa.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Aztec	$20,000	Power poles blown over onto roadway in Aztec. Minor damage reported to several vehicles.
August 1997	Flash Flood	Aztec	-	Three to 6 inches of mud and debris covered parts of Highway 550 in Aztec following heavy rain of 1 to 2 inches on the mesa above town near the airport. Several other city streets were temporarily closed by the runoff.
October 2006	Hail	Aztec	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in San Juan County

Newspapers printed here

1,032 digitised pages

1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 251 issues, 1,032 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

Newspaper	Published
The San Juan County Index	1890 to 19??

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
McCoy-Maddox House	0.1 miles	1985
Harvey McCoy House	0.3 miles	1985
Building at 500 White Avenue	0.4 miles	1985
Austin-McDonald House	0.4 miles	1985
D. C. Ball House	0.5 miles	1985
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railway Depot	0.5 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85000335 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
San Juan County	All 21 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.